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May 15, 2013 · Stanislaw Lem's forgotten masterwork Summa Technologiae, now in English half a century after publication, is a heady mix of prescience, philosophy and irony. By Simon Ings
ISBN. 978-0816675777. Summa Technologiae (the Latin -language title translates as " Summa ( Compendium) of Technology ") is a 1964 book by Polish author Stanisław Lem. Summa is one of the first collections of philosophical essays by Lem. The book exhibits depth of insight and irony usual for Lem's creations. [citation needed]
Feb 27, 2024 · In “Summa Technologiae,” Lem emphasizes how humanity, in thinking about the future, has often thought through the wrong questions.
Summa Technologiae. „Summa Technologie” is a „mother-essay” from which most of Lem's later essayistic books stem. It was written in times when most of the discussed issues – today sometimes quite obvious ones – belonged to the world of fantasy. The ambition behind this project still amazes, especially if we take into consideration ...
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Homeostatic activity, which used technologies as specific organs, made man the ruler of the Earth, a powerful one actually only in the eyes of the apologist, which he is himself. In view of climatic perturbations, earthquakes, the rare, but possible danger of impact of a large meteor, man is in principle as helpless as he was in the last Ice Age.
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Apr 9, 2024 · In Lem’s Summa Technologiae we find hypotheses on the nature of technology and how it mediates human knowledge and evolution. Lem is a formidable technology theorist whose work aligns with...
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Jan 6, 2019 · Lem’s incorrigibly curious mind was naturally drawn to philosophy and he wrote a massive work of speculative futurology, “Summa Technologiae,” from 1964. The title is already a clue to the ...
